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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6: The Fruits of Long Endeavors; Atossa's War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?
(a) To have died at the right time.
(b) To have made so many great discoveries.
(c) To have been a pathologist.
(d) To have died from something other than cancer.

2. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.
(a) Pseudoplasia.
(b) Alloplasia.
(c) Physioplasia.
(d) Neoplasia.

3. Mukherjee discusses a new drug for the treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). _________________ seemed to be the right drug to conquer CML.
(a) Herceptin.
(b) Gleevec.
(c) PARP inhibitors.
(d) MOPP.

4. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) American Cancer Institute.
(b) American Cancer Society.
(c) National Cancer Center.
(d) National Cancer Institute.

5. In 1976, a company named _____________ (Genetic Engineering Technology) was formed in San Francisco.
(a) Genenology.
(b) Genetic Entech.
(c) Gengology.
(d) Genentech.

Short Answer Questions

1. In _________, Percival Pott began to notice a shocking increase in the number of patients that suffered from scrotal cancer.

2. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?

3. After the introduction of the Pap smear came the clinical trials for what?

4. Who was Henry Kaplan?

5. By 1993, Slamon's early phase clinical trials had become a hot topic among ____________ cancer patients.

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